“Are Colleges Undermining Education with Easy A’s?”
“DEBUNKING: The Rich Don’t Pay Their Fair Share”
“The Politics of Conversion Therapy”
Those are real video titles from Make It Make Sense_,_ the _Washington Post_ opinion section’s new flagship podcast, which the paper officially launched on Monday, a day after the media newsletter Status reported that the section had spent $80,000 (!)…
America’s first Gilded Age is often remembered as a time of industrial growth and excessive corporate power, when economic power and basic resources became concentrated in too few hands for a healthy democratic society to tolerate. The very name conjures up images of railroads and steel mills, coal mines and robber barons.
It was also a golden age of scams, frauds, and cons. Confidence men who…
A funny little reframe you can do, to unlock the joy in sad lyrics 👩🎤
storytelling without exploitation
Thoughts on the passing of a mentor
After I wrote about the things I stopped caring about, someone replied on Micro.blog with something that stuck with me. The issue isn’t just consumerism, they said, it’s the expectation that we should have access to everything, from anywhere, all the time. Every song, every photo, every file, always available, always on. And that expectation has made a lot of us unwell. I think they’re right, and…